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Zero Mile PresentsREVEREND KRISTIN MICHAEL HAYTER
SUN, 22 SEP 2024 at 08:00PM EDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 at 10:00AM EDT
Announcement: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 10:00AM EDT
SAVED! is an apocalyptic revelation on the complex, sometimes ugly, always nonlinear
process of healing. Herein, Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter documents an earnest attempt to
achieve salvation through the tenets of charismatic Christianity, focusing on the
Pentecostal-Holiness Movement, which dictate that one’s closeness to God is demonstrated
through transcendental personal experience. Sonically and thematically, the record is both a
logical conclusion to and a significant departure from Hayter’s previous work as Lingua Ignota.
Mirroring her personal evolution away from pain, she sheds the moniker that made her
successful for its unflinching expression of lived trauma and instead builds herself anew,
claiming her full given name, determined to see value within. Musically, while she continues to
use historical avant-garde technique and formal constraints superimposed over accessible
frameworks, she also strips down her instrumentation and degrades audio to provide a sense of
musicological antiquity. Similar to Lingua Ignota, the record is steeped in pathos, but now the
wrath of God gives way to His deliverance: “His boundless love shall make you whole.”
To evoke the lonely roads of salvation-seeking, SAVED! is stark, confined mostly to
vocals (sometimes overdubbed into a dissonant chorus of twelve simultaneous voices) and piano
prepared with bells and chains, the earthly and celestial. Speaking in tongues is achieved by
self-imposing a variety of conditions; sleep deprivation, fasting, repetition of prayer, and sensory
overstimulation. Working with long-time collaborator Seth Manchester to achieve a sound that is
without era or place, high-fidelity recordings of each song were committed to a 4-track recorder,
and then further degraded in a series of small half-broken cassette players. Tape manipulation
techniques provide additional effects of deteriorating texture. The result is an artifact that sounds
lost to decay, forgotten, as though never meant to be heard. This is all in service of the message
-- that in its quest for salvation and healing SAVED! is a renunciation of life. Here solace is
found in absolute retreat from the world, far from pain and sin, burning with the holy fire until
the end comes. And it is written: as you are when the end comes, so will you be when you must
face Him. Whether this is enlightenment or insanity is up to the listener to decide.
THIS WILL BE A PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW. SEATS WILL BE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
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Terminal West, 887 W Marietta St NW, Ste C,Atlanta,GA,United States
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